SINGLE REVIEW: RAINY DAY WOMAN “LITTLE BIRD”
Those thoughts and stories drift into the wandering ears become the folkloric tales we hear by the campfire. “Little Bird” by the Bristol-based Americana duo Rainy Day Woman revolves around the story of a woman who has lost her child in the ocean, roaming to a foreign land in a flimsy boat carried by the tides.
Like a bird lost its tribe in the migration to another land, the woman was dislocated to an unfamiliar landscape. Her body still aches from the raving pain while her ear still rings from the roaring ocean. Yet her heart and soul wanders in the deep blue sea, where the child once in her arms awaits.
Photo credit: Millie Frances
Fiddle and banjo, a heartbroken tale melts in Hannah’s siren-like voice, pulling at your heartstrings. Like stars of the ancient, atonal ornaments wink in between the familiar and unfamiliar, sliding through memories imprinted in our bloodline.
Like those tales that never leave the space, “Little Bird” lingers in the whisper of the reoccurring tides, carried by the salty, humid coastal air.
“And one day I’ll swim out in the vast blue ocean. My time will have come, and she’ll take me in the setting sun.”
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